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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

True.
Opera is very nice and if it was open source I would feel more comfortable using it on a full time basis. Firefox is kind of like that crazy significant other that you cannot get away from. I'm stuck with it for the time being.

I really do quite like Opera. However, something always brings me back to Firefox. Atm it's a few pages that render a bit wrong. I also feel funny using Thunderbird + Opera. The Opera mail client is great, however it doesn't have the lightning calendar extension..

Seriously guys, I don't get it. Some of you don't like Firefox, for whatever reasons, be it the version number thing, the security holes or it being a resource hog. That is totally OK, but why bitching around about it? What is the point of that? Either change the browser or try to make it better. It is open source, if you think it needs to be improved than help with it. There is absolutely no point in complaining on a forum about the things you don't like but then using it anyways.

FUD. Thunderbird is not dead, the focus has just shifted. It is considered to be (almost) feature complete, so Mozilla shifted its focus away from it in favor for other projects. That does not mean that it is abandoned, they have a community that is developing it further.

Like jtsn, I have been using Opera since it was first released to the public (v. 3.x). Its performance and rich feature-set has earned my loyalty.

I find Mozilla's version merry-go-round mildly silly.

+1.
I use to buy every new release of Opera (back in the "good old days") and have been using it since it all fit on a single 1.44 meg., 3 1/2" floppy disk.
I guess it is a matter of what you are comfortable with using.

Mozilla shifted to a six-week rapid release cycle for Firefox earlier this year to keep up with the pace of Google Chrome releases. But the change proved untenable for large corporate users of Firefox, such as IBM, who couldn't test and validate Firefox releases before a new version had been released and support for the old version had been dropped.
To make matters worse, statements from Mozilla employees suggested that enterprise concerns were not a priority, a gaffe that Microsoft immediately pounced on.

Mozilla is making itself look bad by ignoring enterprise (and I would say stability) concerns, while supposedly trying to keep up with the Chrome release schedule for no apparent reason.

What improves with each new release of Firefox ? Nothing. They mess with the UI a bit, things that I have to disable and reverse. They release security fixes, but often there are security flaws with those fixes, as seen here.

This all started with them trying to emulate Chrome for no apparent reason. Why would people need more than one Chrome ? Why does everyone have to be like Chrome ? Wouldn't they been better of just doing what they were doing for a very long time ? I think they would have, but someone make them change their mind all of a sudden. You think I have inside info on the deal ? No, and if I did, I doubt I would release it, nobody would believe it anyway.